Narendra Modi during his rally in Thiruvananthapuram
BJP's PM candidate
Narendra Modi, who was greeted by more than one and a half lakh party supporters in Kerala's capital Thiruvananthapuram, slammed the LDF and UDF today for 'shadow-boxing'.
"UDF and LDF have been very good at shadow-boxing, but past incidents in Kerala show that the two have been hand in glove with each other. Every 5 years, they save cover each other's sins when a new government is formed. It's only because of this TP Chandrashekhar's real perpetrators have not been jailed yet".
While BJP president Rajnath Singh slammed CPM for being a party with a "philosophy of murder", Mr Modi lashed out at it for opposing computers, the IT boom and development in Kerala, and in India.
Calling the UDF government inefficient, Mr Modi said "LNG terminals for Kerala and Gujarat were sanctioned in the same year in 1998, but while Gujarat got its LNG terminal in 2004, Kerala has not got one even in 2014."
"What has this government has done for you in 60 years, I will do it in 60 months," he said.
Mr Modi also slammed the government for being ineffective in tacking the unemployment.
The BJP had a mere six per cent share of electoral votes during the last assembly elections in Kerala, but the party seems positive of an increase in the coming Lok Sabha elections. 300 CPM members have joined BJP in the last one week.